David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
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If there is one thing I am, it's always right.
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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact.
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I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them.
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There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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I don't look like Brad Pitt.
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
